A shrinking Alpine glacier reveals a 2,000-year record of pollution, wildfire smoke, and volcanic fallout – much of it already disappearing.
Before Factories, There Were Medieval Fires And Roman Mines. A Vanishing Glacier Preserved The Proof. In A Nutshell ...
As a graduate student working out of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, evolutionary biologist Shane DuBay noticed soot clinging to the bird specimens he handled. Like many researchers, he ...
(Blacksburg, Va.) -- In the early 1900s, there were 42 species of freshwater mussels in the North Fork of the Holston River in Southwest Virginia. There were 33 downstream of Saltville. Now there are ...
A new study highlights a surprising lens for tracking pollution trends over centuries: preserved plants and animals housed at natural history museums around the world. According to Shane DuBay, a ...
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Melanie Meade monitors plumes of pollution. Her hilltop home overlooks Clairton Coke Works, the largest coke-manufacturing facility in North America — and Allegheny County’s top source of air ...